spring undergraduate research forum
poster presentation awards 2008
Arts and Humanities
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Christina McClelland - Promoting Iowa Artists Using the Web: The Daily Palette
Mentor - Jon Winet, Art and Art History
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Natalie Adams - Constructing a Modern Performing Edition from an Original Work by Francois-Rene Gebauer
Mentor - Jeffery Agrell, Music
Commended Poster Presentation:
Brianna Rodriguez - New Rights with Divorce and Marriage Following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo in Southern Texas
Mentor - Omar Valerio-Jimenez, History
Mathematics and Engineering
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Jason Fries - Mobile Sensor Instrumentation of Contact Graphs for Epidemiological Models
Mentor - Ted Herman, Computer Science
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Stacy Sommerfeld - Formulation and Optimization of an Aerosol Containing a Bacterial-Killing Enzyme
Mentor - Jennifer Fiegel, Pharmaceutics & Chemical Engineering
Commended Poster Presentation:
Austin Peiffer - Musical Composition and Mathematics: The Geometry of Musical Events
Mentor - Dennis Roseman, Mathematics
Natural Sciences
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Adam Althaus - Microglial Response to Apoptosis
Mentor - Michael Dailey, Biology
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Francisco Lovan - p53-Dependant and -Independant Roles of Tumor Suppressor DDB2 in Tumorigenesis
Mentor - Toshiki Itoh, Pathology
Commended Poster Presentation:
Jason Allen - Reduced Brian pH Causes Fear and Heightens Anxiety by Activating pH Sensitive Molecules
Mentor - John Wemmie, Psychiatry
Social Sciences
Outstanding Poster Presentation:
Ashlee Swinton - Family Structure, Poverty, and Mental Health: An Analysis of the Relationships
Mentor - Mary Campbell and Mary Noonan, Sociology
Distinguished Poster Presentation:
Emily Georgia - Understanding the Link Between Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Distress: Significance of Decision to Cohabit
Mentor - Erika Lawrence, Psychology
Commended Poster Presentation:
Ryan Gerling - Academic Acceleration: Current Practices and a Policy Template
Mentor - David Lohman, Psychological & Quantitative Foundations
Commended Poster Presentation:
Joseph Thorngren - The United States Health Care Epidemic: Past, Present, Future
Mentor - Robert Baller, Sociology